Merits

==Mental Merits==

Area of Expertise - 1 dot - Pre-req: Resolve 2 and one Skill Specialty. Effect: Gain +2 for the named specialty instead of +1/ Pg 44 CoD

Common Sense - 3 dots - Pre-req: None. Effect: Once per week (per HR:Durations) roll Wits+Composure and ask the ST a question. Exceptional success allows two questions to be asked. Pg 44 CoD

Danger Sense - 2 dots - Pre-req: None. Effect: +2 on Wits+Composure to spot an ambush. Pg 44 CoD

Direction Sense - 1 dot - Pr-req: None. Effect: Never suffer penalties to navigate or find their way. Pg 44 CoD

Eidetic Memory - 2 dots - Pre-req: None. Effect: +2 when making Intelligence+Composure rolls to remember something. Pg 44 CoD

Encyclopedic Knowledge - 2 dots - Pre-req: None. Effect: Pick a skill to know a lot about, even if there are not dots in the skill. Roll Intelligence+Wits to gain a bit of information relevant to the skill from an ST. Pg 44 CoD

Eyes for the Strange - 2 dots - Pre-req: Resolve 2, Occult 1. Effect: Roll Intelligence+Composure to determine if there was a supernatural hand in a scene. Am exceptional gives a clue, via folklore, to the type of supernatural being it may have been. If there is not supernatural influence, gain +2 to all rolls to investigate the event. Pg 44 CoD

Fast Reflexes - 1 to 3 dots - Pre-req: Wits 3 or Dexterity 3. Effect: +1 Initiative per dot. Pg 44 CoD

Good Time Management - 1 dot - Pre-req: Academics 2 or Science 2. Effect: Halve time between rolls on extended actions. Pg 44 CoD

Holistic Awareness - 1 dot - Pre-req: None. Effect: Roll Wits+Survival to collect holistic medical supplies. Pg 44 CoD

Indomitable - 2 dots - Pre-req: Resolve 3. Effect: +2 dice to resist supernatural influence, or -2 dice to their pool for a contested roll. Does not work on mundane methods of persuasion or manipulation. Pg 45 CoD

Interdisciplinary Specialty - 1 dot - Pre-req: Skill at 3 or higher with a specialty. Effect: Pick a specialty and gain the ability to apply it to any roll that it makes sense to do so. Pg 45 CoD

Investigative Aide - 1 dot - Pre-req: Chosen skill at 3+. Effect: Exceptional success on 3 instead of 5 for the purpose of uncovering Clues. Gain +1 element to Clues when using the chosen skill. Pg 45 CoD

Investigative Prodigy - 1 to 5 dots - Pre-req: Wits 3 and Investigation 3. Effect: Uncover Clues equal to successes or dots, whichever is lower, as an instant action. Only the first Clue benefits from the extra elements. Other Clues only receive a single element. Pg 45 CoD.

Language - 1 dot - Pre-req:None. Effect: Speak, read, and write another language. Pg 45 CoD

Library - 1 to 3 dots - Pre-req: None. Effect: Pick a Mental Skill. Add dots of Library to extended rolls involving that skill. Pg 46 CoD

Meditative Mind - 1, 2, or 4 dots. - Pre-req: None. Effect: 1-dot: No environmental or wound penalties to meditate. 2-dot: Gain +3 dice for any Resolve+Composure checks for that day. Needs 4 successes. 4-dot: Single success instead of four to benefit from the +3. Pg 46 CoD

Multilingual - 1 dot - Pre-req: None. Effect: Pick 2 languages to speak conversationally in. Intelligence+Academics to try and read the language. May be taken multiple times. Pg 46 CoD

Patient - 1 dot - Pre-req: None. Effect: Two additional rolls when doing an extended test. Pg 46 CoD

Professional Training - 1 to 5 dots - Pre-req: None. See '+help Professional' for HR. Effect: Choose two starting asset skills. 1-dot: Gain two free contacts. 2-dot: 9-again for asset skills. 3-dot: Gain 3rd asset skill, and two specialties in asset skills. 4-dot: Gain a dot in an asset skill. 5-dot: Spend a willpower to gain rote. Removes defense for the turn. Pg 46 CoD

Tolerance for Biology - 1 dot - Pre-req: Resolve 3. Effect: Don't roll to avoid vomiting when things are extra gross. Pg 46 Cod

Trained Observer - 1 or 3 dots - Pre-req: Wits 3 or Composure 3. Effect: 1-dot: Gain 9-again on perception checks. 3-dot: Gain 8-again. Pg 46 CoD

Vice-Ridden - 2 dot - Pre-req: None. Effect: Two vices. Only gain willpower once per scene. Pg 46 CoD

Virtuous - 2 dot- Pre-req: None. Effect: Two virtues. Only gain willpower once per scene. Pg 46 CoD

Physical Merits

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